Dr. Edda Wolff

Curriculum Vitae

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Seit Feb. 2023	Post-Doc am Institut für Christkatholische Theologie, Universiät Bern, Schweiz
Aug. 2021 - Jan. 2022	Post-Doc-Projekt zum Thema “Mysticism as a lens for the understanding of spirituality within political activism,” am Boston College (USA) und der Universität zu Köln (DAAD Stipendium)
Jan. - Juni 2021	Post-Doc-Projekt zum Thema “Negative Hermeneutics of Reconciliation – Religious Imagery in the Reconciliation Process of the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia and Indigenous Communities”, an der University of Victoria, Kanada (DAAD Stipendium)
Juni-Dez. 2020	Interim-Kathedralkanonikerin an der Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity und Bischofsmissionarin, Paris, Frankreich
2018-2020	Interimspfarrer*in in der Episkopalgemeinde Christ the King Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2015-2018	PhD an der University of Durham, Titel der Arbeit: “Liturgical Non-Sense – Negative Hermeneutics as a method for liturgical studies based on liturgical case studies of Holy Saturday”
2015-2018	Ausbildung für den Pfarrberuf in Church of England in Westcott House, Cambridge
2014-2015	Arbeit als Chaplaincy Assistant (Hochschulseelsorger*in) in der Universitätsgemeinde der University of Reading, UK
2006-2012	Studium der Theologie und Philosophie in Tübingen, Rom und Freiburg

Monograph

Articles

"Joining into God's breath – 'work of the negative' as a connection between mysticism and political activism," accepted at The Heythrop Journal, April 2023.
"Listening out for God's breath – a negative hermeneutical approach to mysticism," accepted at The Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, May 2023.
"Celebration beyond (un-)belief – the potential of negative hermeneutics for a liturgical apophaticism," Studia Liturgica, 53(1), 2022. 120–136.
“Robert Schurz’ Negative Hermeneutik und Sozialwissenschaften”- Eine pastoralpsychologische Relecture, bookreview, accepted for publication at Transformationen – ein pastoralpsychologischer Werkstattbericht, Frankfurt, Volume 31, July 2019, pp. 62-72.
"Cyprian Krause's 'Justification of Rituality in the Face of the Absurd' - its Potential for Negative Hermeneutics of Liturgy and their Methodological Consequences" in: International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 79(3): Ritual, July 2018.

Translations

Translation of Presiding Bishop Curry's "Word to the Church" into German, April 2020
Translation of the Baptismal Liturgy for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, January 2020

Selected Conference Presentation

A passionate "no" to suffering – passion and compassion as connection points between mysticism and political activism in the writings of Dorothee Sölle and Dorothy Day," at the Annual Conference of the Mystical Theology Network, 2^nd of December 2022.
"Noli me tangere – the theological challenges and potential of boundaries and borders in Indigenous reconciliation processes," at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Theology (UK), 14^th of April 2021
"I have called you by name' - A liturgy of renaming in the Anglican Church of Canada," at Moving Trans History Forward, International and Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Victoria (Canada), 11^th of March 2021
"Christian Churches in America under Donald Trump" Invited speaker at Theologischer Arbeitskreis Hessen (Germany), Marburg (Germany), 13^th of September 2019
"Negative hermeneutics as an approach to mystical theology," at the Annual Conference of the MTN in Boston (US), 1^st of March 2019
"Celebration beyond (un-)belief," Annual Conference of the SST at Nottingham (UK), 10. April 2018

Articles submitted/decision pending

"I am what I do – Negative Work as a Lens for the Study of Movement Chaplaincy," submitted to the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, February 2022.
"Why Gaps Matter – A negative hermeneutical approach to the Reconciliation Process in the Diocese of British Columbia based on the example of Bishop Logan's Sacred Journey," submitted to the Journal for Religious Ethics, January 2023